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Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Tracy	Report	5 Apr 2004 12:36
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Is there anyway of knowing if someone of service age was out doing national service with the armed forces at the time of various census's?? Many male ancestors are missing on census's that are of national service age and then reappear on the later census's! Any advice welcome Tracey
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 1,461 Send Message	Judith	Report	5 Apr 2004 14:13
	I believe national service as such existed from 1948 - 1963 but of course during the 19th century many young men would have joined local regiments and could well have been away from home at census time. www(.)mod(.)uk/contacts/army_records(.)htm is a useful site for information on how to trace army service records. Good luck Judith
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Tracy	Report	5 Apr 2004 14:59
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 0 Send Message	Thank you Judith, I will try that site. For some reason i thought national service was in existance early than that. Thanks for the link anyway Regards Tracey
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 22 Send Message	Nicola	Report	5 Apr 2004 15:21
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 22 Send Message	My men have mostly vanished on the 1901 census too.....and still no luck in finding them .....maybe ellis island is the answer